Yannick Nezet-Seguin will become the Metropolitan Opera's music director next season, two years earlier than planned, providing a leader to an orchestra fighting drift and defections for more than a decade.

Singer Shawn Mendes caused quite a stir Sunday when he took to Instagram to share a shirtless photo of himself, sitting on a swing on a beach, with his 28.7 million fans. Oh, and he also teased a new album.

Leaders of the Whiffenpoofs, Yale University's world-famous glee club, say their sound isn't changing, but they are ending their more than century-old tradition of being a male only a cappella ensemble.